Explore the wonderful quotes under this tag
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Sep 24, 2025
The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right.
When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
Oh, it's home again and home again, America for me! I want a ship that's westward bound to plough the rolling sea To the blessed land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars, Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.
National honor is national property of the highest value.
Yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and tenpence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow!
Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow.
Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.
Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.
There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream.
He loves his country best who strives to make it best.
America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White and Blue
America is a tune. It must be sung together.
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.
Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.
What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.
All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.
The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men.
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.
For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
All collections loaded